Now Playing

2/3/2015 12:10AM

CIO Network: The Future of Genetic Medicine

With a growing understanding of the human genome, doctors may be able to identify diseases earlier. J. Craig Venter talks about using DNA to determine genetic predispositions with WSJ Assistant Managing Editor John Bussey at the CIO Network.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... the of patience for Madison aren't that's due to be Obel blue ... show pre dispositions for various diseases if you have a big enough data base from which to draw that much ... seven ... he absolutely and we can do that now but the very moment it's a part of the problem is ... with the discovery of the so-called prosecutor ... one rocket to ... positioned long the old women that have the genetic changes so too with those teams ... that they had a ninety nine percent chance that impressed ... turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get prospect ... aam ... on secrecy my Kimelman was found that I have been Heterozygous ... for the people before a meal that has the ... higher risk for also ... six ... so ... I went through some experimental programs ... you can actually have a redirected trying injected in your bloodstream and then with a ... up at the MRI and commissioned this brave measures the amount of animal ... brain ... turns out I had ... enough ... so I've that clean bill of health with ... Alzheimer's disease for least twenty ... plus years ... so what it means I have another jeans and my you know that compensate ... for my risk of meals ... up and protect me from getting House ... seats the software were trying to discover soon give people the true facts about the situation ... his ... well you have the is a risk of diseases the risk for disease such as breast cancer ... but you get these my another protective elements a it's a very low likelihood that you'll actually get us to ... be ... if you don't have protected the wheels ... are in you know you have an increased risk ... BdB ... we talked about earlier knowledge is power ... I learned how to recognize melanoma early on ... for my medical experience ... from so I have this small Why Eragon are spot on ... headed ... to turn to go home ... but because it was detected early the penetrated all ... the pound of flesh which had ... more than enough ... to donate ... I did we have to undergo chemotherapy ... if I waited a year or two and was afraid what it might be ... um you chances for fifty fifty that might be here ... so you want to know priest dispositions you want to know how ... to change the outcomes ... whether were predestined to them medically or not ...